--- title: "Khoy – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Khoy, Azerbaijan: Khoy is a city in the Central District of Khoy County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/khoy" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/khoy.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Avrin_mountain.jpg/1920px-Avrin_mountain.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- City in West Azerbaijan province, Iran # Khoy Khoy is a city in the Central District of Khoy County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. ![Khoy](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Avrin_mountain.jpg/1920px-Avrin_mountain.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Khoy · محبوب حسین زاده The place Khoy is a city in the Central District of Khoy County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Occupied since Median times, it shares a long history as an important Christian center. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoy), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Khoy 3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Dash Aghlian Mosque The Dash Aghlian Mosque is a Shi'ite mosque located on Shahid Samadzadeh Street, in Khoy, in the province of West Azerbaijan, Iran. The mosque was completed in the 19th century, during the Qajar era. 1.3 km · mosque in Khoy, Iranian national heritage site · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash_Aghlian_Mosque) 2. Hojjatieh Mosque The Hojjatieh Mosque is a Shi'ite mosque located in the city of Khoy, in the province of West Azerbaijan, Iran. The mosque was completed during the Qajar era. 600 m · Iranian national heritage site · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hojjatieh_Mosque) 3. Saint Sarkis Church The Saint Sarkis Church of Khoy is a medieval Armenian Apostolic church in the city of Khoy, in the province of West Azerbaijan, Iran. 1.2 km · church in Khoy, Iranian national heritage site · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Sarkis_Church_(Khoy,_West_Azerbaijan,_Iran%29) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Khoy **Airports:** Nakhchivan (NAJ), 84 km · Tabriz (TBZ), 121 km · Zvartnots (EVN), 184 km\ - Nakhchivan → Khoy Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nakhchivan-to-khoy) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nakhchivan&to=Khoy) - Ganja → Khoy Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/ganja-to-khoy) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ganja&to=Khoy) - Baku → Khoy Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/baku-to-khoy) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Baku&to=Khoy) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Khoy) Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Khoy Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Khoy. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valley](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/yeghegnadzor) AM 9 ways of moving, 32 sources 139 km 2. [Gyumri](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gyumri) AM 12 ways of moving, 47 sources 267 km 3. [Vardzia and the Javakheti plateau](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vardzia) GE 12 ways of moving, 57 sources 346 km 4. [Sheki (Şəki)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sheki) AZ 10 ways of moving, 46 sources 351 km 5. [Gori](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gori) GE 10 ways of moving, 16 sources 389 km If you know how people move in Khoy – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Ckhoy&title=Khoy&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fkhoy), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Khoy - [Koshkzar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/koshkzar) village in Iran 5.2 km - [Agheshlu](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/agheshlu) village in Iran 10 km - [Chavoshqoli](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chavoshqoli) village in Iran 8.4 km - [Dizaj-e Herik](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dizaj-e-herik) village in Iran 2.7 km - [Qerkh Yashar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/qerkh-yashar) village in Iran 9.6 km - [Sarabdal](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sarabdal) village in Iran 5.1 km [The place page for Khoy](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/khoy) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Azerbaijan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-AZ) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/khoy, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt